Hawaii
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Tesla’s summer announcement of the world’s biggest battery-storage system in South Australia characteristically kept key details confidential. Fortunately, while mystery and mystique still shroud that project, more can be unearthed or inferred for Tesla's solar panel and battery energy-storage deployment in Kauai, Hawaii, which came online earlier this year. In fact, there's now enough information that—to paraphrase Elon Musk—we can do the math. Inspiring math it is, too. DON'T MISS: Tesla's battery farm on Kauai opens, large-scale solar energy for Hawaii While the big...
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Hawaii to get hydrogen fueling station; Toyota Mirai leases to follow
Tropical islands are some of the best places on earth to pioneer carbon-free energy and zero-emission vehicles. Within the United States, the eight islands of Hawaii are blessed with a temperate climate, abundant sunshine, few high-speed highways, and a statewide speed limit of 60 mph, achievable...
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Tesla's battery farm on Kauai opens, large-scale solar energy for Hawaii
Even before Elon Musk engineered Tesla's acquisition of SolarCity, the two companies were collaborating. SolarCity was already controlled by Musk, who believes its solar-energy business can be reinforced and complemented by Tesla's energy-storage business. Last year, Tesla announced a joint project...
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Hawaii, utility offer $10,000 Nissan Leaf rebate; hope for carbon-free transport
Islands can be excellent places to promote clean energy. Because they are typically disconnected from both mainland grid infrastructure and sources of fossil fuels, it is easier for alternative sources of energy to gain a foothold. In fact, the cost of importing coal or oil to fuel power plants or...
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Tesla to provide batteries for energy storage farm in Kauai, Hawaii
Tesla and SolarCity will construct a combined solar farm and energy storage array in Hawaii.
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Solar Impulse Sun-Powered Airplane Lands Safely In Hawaii
Solar Impulse 2 set a flight record for time and distance by a solar-powered aircraft.
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Tata may launch an air-powered car in Hawaii.
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Nissan Leaf Vs The Volcano: The Silent Ascent
A Nissan Leaf puts its regenerative brakes to good use traversing Hawaii's Haleakala volcano.
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Tesla In The Tropics: Hawaii A Good Market For Electric Cars
As Nissan has discovered with sales of its Leaf, Hawaii is well suited to the daily duties of running an electric car. It's something Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] is discovering too, as sales of the Model S sedan are ramping up in the island state, and taking a healthy chunk of the market's electric...
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Gas Stations, Quick Charging Stations: A Match Made In Heaven?
Hawaii is already a pretty good place to drive an electric car, and not just so you can enjoy the beautiful scenery in electric-powered silence. Islands are ideal places to own electric cars, where distances are shorter and gas prices are higher. And Oahu is set to become even better, as...
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Where Are Hybrids, Electric Cars Selling Fastest? Hawaii
Hawaii, the land of sun, sea, sand and surfing. Green transport, too, according to the latest sales figures emerging from the islands. In fact, hybrids and electric cars are selling so well in the state they almost matched 2011's figures in the first five months of this year. We've already...
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Most Likely Homes For Electric Cars May Be Islands
Owning and driving an electric car is very much dependant on personal circumstances right now. You can either afford one, or you can't. You can either get away with the limited range of an EV, or you can't. You're either motivated to reduce your impact on the planet, or you're not. A new survey by...
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Hawaii is a beautiful state with warm tropical weather, but it's also an expensive place to drive despite the limited travel distances on each of its islands. Fuels have to be brought in by ship, and its gas prices ($4.45 a gallon this week) are some of the highest in the U.S. All those factors together may make Hawaii the state that's most suited to plug-in cars--and the state is eagerly embracing them. Peter Rosegg, of the Hawaiian Electric Company, argues that the island chain is an ideal laboratory for broad-scale conversion to vehicles powered by grid electricity. Highest rate of...
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Where Will Electric Cars Be Most Common On U.S. Roads?
It's conventional wisdom that more electric cars will be sold in California than in any other state. Some estimates say Californians will buy more plug-in cars than the next five states combined. But California has roughly 25 million vehicles on its roads, so while the absolute numbers are high, it...
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Can Electric-Car Clubs And Shows Really Bring In Buyers?
As an electric car enthusiast or recently-converted gearhead, you'll no doubt be aware of the huge variety of clubs out there for virtually any make and model or automotive scene you can think of. For many people, a thriving scene and great social network might be the difference between choosing...
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Coda's Electric Sedan Says 'Aloha' To Hawaii Next Year
Coda announced today their plans to roll out their all-electric sedan in Hawaii in the third quarter of 2011, positioning the car to battle the Nissan Leaf in a market that suffers from some of the highest gas prices in the country. In May, Nissan singled out Hawaii as a target market –- the...
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Nissan And Coda Work To Make Hawaii Electric Car Paradise
It’s not a secret that Hawaii is keen to become the most electric car-friendly state in the whole of the U.S. And now two more electric car companies are laying a claim to the electric vehicle market in the island state. Earlier this week at the Asia Pacific Clean Energy Summit and Expo, the...
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Hawaii: Island Paradise for Electric Vehicles As Well As People
You'd be forgiven for thinking Hawaii is the center of the electric vehicle universe. Wednesday, Nissan announced it would be one of the first markets for the 2011 Leaf electric vehicle. Then yesterday South Korean manufacturer CT&T signed a deal with the state's governor, Linda Lingle, to...
Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield